Plantae

06/18/2026

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Special Issue on methodologies to assess crop stress resilience (Physiologia Plantarum) (Summary by Mary Williams) https://plantae.org/special-issue-on-methods-to-assess-crop-stress-resilience/

Our food crops are threatened by ever-increasing environmental challenges as a consequence of climate change. It’s critical that we develop strategies to monitor and mitigate these stresses…

06/17/2026

ASPB has joined a broad coalition of agricultural, scientific, and farmer organizations in calling on Congress to strengthen oversight of recent changes within the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research, Education, and Economics (REE) mission area. Read more👇 https://blog.aspb.org/aspb-joins-coalition-supporting-federal-agricultural-research/

06/17/2026

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Focus issue on AI for plant sciences (Plant Communications) (Summary by Mary Williams) https://plantae.org/focus-issue-on-ai-for-plant-sciences/

There are numerous ways that AI can support research productivity through its ability to evaluate large datasets. Plant Communications has assembled a collection of articles that describe some of…

06/16/2026

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Review: How the extracellular matrix of streptophyte algae contributed to plant terrestrialization (Plant Phys.) (Summary by Mary Williams) https://plantae.org/review-how-the-extracellular-matrix-of-streptophyte-algae-contributed-to-plant-terrestrialization/

Compared to their aquatic relatives, early land plants faced many challenges, such as a lack of buoyancy, harmful UV light, the challenge of nutrient uptake, and the need to avoid desiccation.

06/15/2026

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Review. Decoding SCOOP signaling: evolution, recognition, and functions of a plant peptide family (Plant, Cell & Environment) (Summary by Ching Chan) https://plantae.org/review-decoding-scoop-signaling-evolution-recognition-and-functions-of-a-plant-peptide-family/

Plants continuously monitor their environment through sophisticated defense systems that recognize microbe-associated molecular patterns and activate immune responses. Among the diverse signaling…

06/12/2026

Read the recent update from ASPB President-elect Tessa Burch-Smith, which highlights various ASPB activities & developments supporting the Society’s continued growth and success.

Read more👇 https://blog.aspb.org/presidents-update-sowing-today-to-reap-in-the-future/.

06/12/2026

This week’s Signal Edition (6/11/26) is out!🌱

👉Read more https://multibriefs.com/briefs/ASPB/ASPB061126.php

06/12/2026

on Plantae: Beyond AlphaFold: The Technologies Waiting to Change Plant Science. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellows Charlay Wood, Ruth Nichols, and Sonia Balyan explore the next wave of technologies waiting to transform plant science: digital twins, plant biosensors, foundation models, AI lab assistants, and smarter ways to preserve the methods that actually work. https://plantae.org/technologies-waiting-to-change-plant-science/

There is probably not a plant scientist on the planet who has not heard of AlphaFold (Jumper et al., 2021). Many of you reading this have likely used it. What began as DeepMind’s attempt to apply…

06/12/2026

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Letter. OpenCRISPR-1 in rice: when AI meets plant genome editing (New Phytologist) (Summary by Ching Chan) https://plantae.org/letter-opencrispr-1-in-rice-when-ai-meets-plant-genome-editing/

Genome editing has rapidly transformed biology, and Cas9 remains the most widely used tool for making targeted changes in DNA. Recently, a new AI-designed editor called OpenCRISPR-1 (OC1) which…

06/11/2026

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Coordinating plant growth and stress resistance via N-terminal protein acetylation (Nature Comms.) (Summary by Fengoula Avgeri) https://plantae.org/coordinating-plant-growth-and-stress-resistance-via-n-terminal-protein-acetylation/

Ph.D. in molecular biology 🌱Plant Science and 2026 Plantae Fellow 🛡️Proteostasis